derby
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- n a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim
- At the Delaware County Fair in New York state, demolition derby entrants crash their clunkers on the muddy track of the grandstand.
- It seems at first far too facile and fragile an idea for a full-length movie: the roller derby as a metaphor for America's competition, violence, degradation.
- The English derby at Epsom Downs was founded by the racing Earls of Derby 153 years ago to amuse a boisterous party of dinner guests.